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Encore

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means a repeated or additional performance requested by an audience
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Stage 1 of 2
encore
French · medieval
"again, still"
literally again, still, used by audiences to demand another performance
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Stage 2 of 2
encore
English · 1700s
"a call for a repeated or additional performance"
adopted directly as the audience's call for an additional performance
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